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South FL emergency depts cited for denying care
Five hospitals based in South Florida's Palm Beach County were recently cited for denying treatment to 30 patients entering their emergency departments last year. While these incidents reflect Read more...
EMTALA flexibility proposed to relieve on-call MD shortages
In a new Medicare hospital payment rule released in late April, CMS included a proposal clarifying its on-call policies under EMTALA. If finalized, the proposal would let a group of hospitals in a Read more...
Hospital services pre-payment may loom large in future
Recently, we've covered a variety of news that touched on the issue of whether hospitals should get tough about collecting from patients prior to delivering care for elective procedures. Most of it Read more...
When it comes to ED costs, nobody wins
As we all know, things can get pretty tense in the emergency department, particularly for patients who come in because they have no health insurance and can't go anywhere else. Given the price of Read more...
ALSO NOTED: FDA admits it can't afford to boost foreign inspections; Researchers test anti-smoking vaccine; and much more...
> The FDA has conceded that maybe, just maybe, it will need more money if it's going to do a good job of inspecting foreign drug manufacture sites. Read more...
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